RUGBY FOOTBALL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23428, 18 August 1939, Page 7

RUGBY FOOTBALL

' ANNUAL CONTEST SECONDARY SCHOOL PLAY AUCKLAND AND NEW PLYMOUTH A popular annual event in Rugby football, the match between the first fifteens of New Plymouth High School and Auckland Grammar School will be the main attraction at Eden Park tomorrow afternoon. The visiting team has a good record 111 its contests with southern secondary schools' teams this season, and should fight onfc a traditionally interesting gamo with Grammar. Previous contests between the two schools have been productive of spectacular open play, together with solid tackling.

Scddon Memorial Technical College will play Stratford High School on No. 2 ground, commencing at 1.30 p.m. Anothor annual contest is that to bo played at tho Show Grounds to-morrow morning between Rotorua High School and tho second fifteen of tho Auckland Grammar School. PENNANT COMPETITION COMMENCEMENT TO-MORROW The Auckland Rugby Union's pennant competition, which will bo continued while tho ropresontativo games are in progress, will coimriienco to-morrow afternoon in two sections. Fourteen teams have entered, seven competing in each section, the winners of tho sections playing off at the conclusion of tho series. The chief attraction in this competition will be tho meeting of University and Suburbs as the curtain-raiser at Edon P;lrk to tho school game between Auckland Grammar and New Plymouth High School. The other .guinea will be as follows: First section; Manukau v. Achilles. Onohunga No. l, 3 p.m.; North Shore v. Parnoil, North, Shore No. 1, 3 p.m.; Grafton, a bye. Second'-sectionOtahuhu v. Ponsonbv, Sturges Park, 3 p.m.; College Rifles v. Marist, Eden Park No. 3,v3 p.m.; Takapuna v. Eden, Tfikapuna No. 1, 3 p.m.; Grammar, a. byo. ' '

AUCKLAND TEAIiI DEPARTURE LAST EVENING The Auckland Rugby representative team, which will play Taranaki at New Plymouth to-morrow afternoon, left by bus for .Te Kuiti last evening, where it spent the night. The team will arrive at New Plymouth this afternoon and will leave again on Sunday morning, arriving back in Auckland on Sunday evening. A. S. Coughlan (Ponsonby) .will replace L. Curtayne as an emergency back, Curtayno having taken Brady's ; place in the five-eighths position. WHANGAREI REPRESENTATIVES [>rom our own WHANGAREI, Thursday Tho following Whangarei teams have been selected for games on Saturday:— x Senior B, against Rodney, at Warkworth.—Fullback, G. Shortland (Pipiwai); threequarters, W. Heta (Whangaruru), R. Shortland (Pipiwai), P. Herewini (Pipiwai); fivc-oighths, C. Moore (Whananaki), Taniora (Whangaruru); halfback, W. Shortland, captain (Pipiwai); forwards, J. Hutchinson, P. Codling (Manaia), G. Niha, Jape (Pipiwai), C. Sterling, E. Pickens (vice-captain), R. Rudolph • (Whangaruru), Smith (Towai). Reserves: H. Robinson (Manaia), P. ■ Wellington (Pipiwai), D. Moore (Whangaruru). Third Grade, against Northern Wairoa, at Whangnrei:—Fullback, Philpott; threequarters, McDonald, McKay, Stanton; five-eighths, Muir (captain), Marsh: halfback, Nisbet; forwards, Fairley, Brophy, Fraider, Baylis, Harris, Sykes, Storey, Beehre. Reserves: Jenyns, "Webster, Wilkinson, Green.